There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACONWrite down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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